{"id":36396,"date":"2022-08-31T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T08:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=36396"},"modified":"2022-08-31T10:48:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T08:48:57","slug":"victoria-amelina-ukrainian-novelist-and-activist-winner-of-the-joseph-conrad-literary-award-addresses-the-free-iran-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/activities-outside-iran\/2022\/08\/victoria-amelina-ukrainian-novelist-and-activist-winner-of-the-joseph-conrad-literary-award-addresses-the-free-iran-2022\/36396\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Amelina, Ukrainian Novelist and Activist, Winner of the Joseph Conrad Literary Award, Addresses the Free Iran 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Victoria Amelina, Ukrainian Novelist and Activist, Winner of the Joseph Conrad Literary Award<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Excerpts of the speech of Victoria Amelina, Ukrainian Novelist and Activist, Winner of the Joseph Conrad Literary Award, at the Free Iran 2022, is as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you so much, thank you so much, and please stop because I can start crying because actually every time when you start chanting \u201cHazer\u201d (We are ready), I feel like I\u2019m back to the beginning of the Ukrainian revolution of dignity like I\u2019m back to 2014, and we are yet at the beginning of our big fight for freedom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I can tell you this fight wasn\u2019t easy for us during all those years, and you are in our shoes as well, so you know that for sure, but we in Ukraine say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That it is better to die free than to live as slaves, and I\u2019m sure you all know that. So, you should fight, and you will win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also wanted to point out that you know when I was five and USSR collapsed, I thought that all Ukraine has to do is to just copy western democracies, and we will be fine. Now. I\u2019m 36, and I know that it is not enough that we are the ones who will have to set a new standard for justice in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And you are the ones who will set a new standard for justice in the world because the post-war world appeared to be not the world where we have never again. It is happening again now in Ukraine, and we have to change something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several speakers, of course, mentioned nuclear power here now. You see. I\u2019m a novelist and a human rights defender, but I want to speak to You about nuclear power. I think that in the fight between Russia and Ukraine we have to show that we won\u2019t submit to nuclear black mailing, this is very important because we are on the brink of a situation when if we are too cautious. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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